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Prof V Dhillon, Dr S Littlefair, Dr S Parsons No more applications being accepted Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Sheffield United Kingdom Astrophysics

About the Project

ULTRACAM and HiPERCAM are high-speed optical cameras that can take hundreds/thousands of CCD images per second simultaneously in three/five colours, respectively. They have been mounted on the largest optical telescopes in the world to study rapid variability in the Universe, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, exoplanets, brown dwarfs, AGN, FRBs, GRBs and occultations by Solar System objects. Both instruments were built by a consortium led by Sheffield. The aim of this PhD project will be to exploit these unique instruments. A number of possible projects are available, including: a search for optical counterparts of FRBs; optical observations of the JWST Time-Domain Field; eclipse studies of accreting and non-accreting white dwarfs.

For more information on this project please contact [Email Address Removed] . Information on the Sheffield Astrophysics Group can be found at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/physics/research/astrophysics .

Funding Notes

For full consideration for an STFC or University funded PhD studentship please apply before 31st January 2022. Full details on how to apply can be found at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd .

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